If it is said that in the early days of the ancient bureaucracy in China, there was still a fairly common phenomenon of indistinguishable officials, and officials could rise to become officials at all levels in the bureaucracy through serious study and hard work, and even ascend to the peak of the bureaucracy - the Three Princes, but in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, this road has been closed to officials. For Song Jiang, who was born in the lower middle class, there are only two ways to become an official, especially a middle and senior official-military merit or imperial examination.

Song Jiang reluctantly looked at the notice in his hand several times before handing it to Liu Tang behind him, and his actions also infected Liu Tang. I saw that he looked at it solemnly, and carefully handed it to Yang Wu behind him. At this time, the thieves all understood that this confession was by no means forged, the reason was very simple, with Song Jiang's experience in the yamen for so many years, how could he not recognize the authenticity of such an important document as the official confession?

After about a cup of tea, the farewell returned to Kong Yanzhou's hands. The atmosphere in this righteous hall changed subtly, except for the few people at Ruan Xiaoqi's table, even the most ferocious thieves in the rest of the people tried their best to squeeze out a flattering smile to Kong Yanzhou. They all know very well that if the cottage wants to accept Zhao'an, its future and fate will depend on the person in front of them, and the ministers of the government will undoubtedly get their first impression of themselves through the mouth of this Confucian envoy.

"Envoy Kong, no, Captain Kong, please take a seat!" Song Jiang carefully changed the title of Kong Yanzhou: "We are not stubborn, but we acted before, and unfortunately many public servants in Jeju Mansion were involved, and if they were recruited, they would be colleagues, but they were a little embarrassed." So—"

Kong Yanzhou waved his hand with a big grin: "Leader Song, you don't have to worry about this, Han Xianggong has already explained before I came, if you are Zhao'an, your official position will definitely not be in Jeju, it will be difficult to meet in person, so what is there to worry about?" ”

Song Jiang was overjoyed when he heard this: "Xianggong is so considerate, it is difficult for us sinners to repay great favors if we are really dogs and horses in life!" He turned around and greeted everyone: "Come and thank Captain Kong for his rebirth and recreation!" After that, Song Jiang was going to bow down.

"Wait!" A cold drink interrupted Song Jiang's bow, and everyone looked back to see that it was Ruan Xiaoqi, only to see that one of his black faces had turned purple, and he was obviously extremely angry.

"Ruan Xiaoqi, what are you doing here?" Song Jiang said angrily.

"What for?" Ruan Xiaoqi pulled out a sharp knife from his waist and poked it on the table, and said angrily: "Song Heisan, you said that Zhao'an will recruit you, but have you ever asked the brothers in the cottage?" Can you ask the people of Liangshanbo? Feelings: This Liangshan cottage is opened by your family? ”

"Ruan Xiaoqi!" Song Jiang was so angry that he trembled, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm leading the copycat brothers to the right path, what's wrong?" Is it the right way to spend all day in this water? ”

Ruan Xiaoqi sneered fearlessly: "What is the official mansion, don't you know Song Heisan?" If we don't fall into the grass, most of the people here will be forced to death by the government. If you want to recruit An, you can go alone, and don't even want to take away a single piece of grass on the cottage! At this point, he shouted, "Come up!" Dozens of men armed with knives and guns rushed in from outside, blocking everyone inside.

"Xiao Qi, what are you going to do?" Song Jiang pointed at Ruan Xiaoqi and shouted, but Kong Yanzhou, who was standing behind Song Jiang, could clearly see that a bead of sweat the size of a soybean was flowing down the back of Song Jiang's neck, it was the middle of winter at the time, obviously it was not hot.

"Why?" Ruan Xiaoqi said: "Song Heisan, brothers, if you have to recruit An, I won't stop you, just roll down the mountain with that Kong envoy, and I'll give you a boat." If there is half a word! He sneered, took the Pu knife in the hand of the minion next to him, and slashed down the corner of the table with a brush.

"Don't blame me Ruan Xiaoqi for being ruthless, please eat a meal of bandao noodles and throw it into Liangshanbo to feed the fish!"

"You ——!" When Song Jiang heard this, he was shocked and angry, and he had no way to take that Ruan Xiaoqi. If according to what Ruan Xiaoqi said, he went down the mountain alone, even if Ruan Xiaoqi really kept his promise and didn't stab himself in the back, it was the Liangshan thieves who were recruited by the government, not him Song Jiang alone. If you go to the government alone, you will definitely be gone, and it will be a good life if you don't be pressed to the court and eat a knife. But if they don't agree, obviously the Ruan family brothers have already prepared, these dozens of minions who rushed to the Juyi Hall were originally fishermen from Liangshanbo, and naturally the Ruan family brothers obeyed their orders, although they also had seven or eight henchmen among the leaders, but their subordinates were all eating and drinking below, and once they started, they would definitely suffer a big loss, and when they thought of the Ruan brothers' spicy hands on weekdays, Song Jiang couldn't help but shudder. Kong Yanzhou, who was behind him, also felt that the situation was not good, so he stood up and looked left and right, looking at where there was a way to escape.

Just when the tension on both sides was on the verge of breaking out, suddenly a scream came from the crowd. I saw Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly fall to the ground, with a sharp knife piercing his wrist in the back of his heart, Ruan Xiaoer on the side didn't know what was going on, he was stabbed in the neck, and the blood splattered far away and fell.

"Li Cheng, what are you doing!" Ruan Xiaowu pulled out his waist knife, stared at Li Cheng who was holding the bloody knife with wide eyes, and shouted, "Why did you kill my brother?" ”

Li Cheng clenched the hilt of the knife with both hands, put on a posture and said with a smile: "Why did you kill your brother?" A certain family is the utility of the Jeju Prefecture soldiers and horses, your brother is a thief who fell into the grass, is there a reason for the officers and soldiers to kill the thief? ”

"You-" Ruan Xiaowu's eyes were so angry that his eyes were torn apart and two lines of blood were bleeding, he and Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi were compatriots, and they had been very emotional since they were children, and at this time they were killed by this Li Cheng all of a sudden, if their eyes could kill, Li Cheng would have been cut into dozens of pieces at this time.

"Kill this traitor!" With Ruan Xiaowu's order, the two minions raised their knives and pounced, Li Cheng sneered, moved the position of his right hand up half a foot, and greeted him. His steps were extremely fast, and he flicked the tip of the knife on the blade of a person, and then snatched it into the man's arms, and the minion fell to the ground with a scream, and it turned out that Li Cheng pulled out the saber on his waist with his left hand, and cut open the opponent's stomach. The man in the back slashed horizontally, but Li Cheng put the knife upright, sealed it to the outer door, and stabbed it with a trend, which resulted in the man's life.

Li Cheng killed the two of them, shook the double knife casually, shook off the snow on the blade, and said with a smile: "Ruan Xiaowu, you don't want to force others to die, you have the ability to fight alone and avenge your brother!" ”

Ruan Xiaowu looked left and right, with a timid look on his face, knowing that these people had been frightened by Li Cheng's wrist, and was thinking about how to force them to step forward, when a miserable scream suddenly came from outside, which was particularly piercing in the silent night sky.

"What's going on? What's going on out there? Ruan Xiaowu was shocked and angry, and shouted loudly.

As if to answer his question, a horn sounded from the bottom of the mountain, and the faces of the bandits suddenly changed greatly, and this horn sound only represented one situation, that is, the officers and soldiers had come to Liangshan.

"What's going on?" Ruan Xiaowu's eyes were red, and he roared like a madman: "Which bastard blows the horn randomly, I will definitely kill him alive later!" "The sudden loss of two brothers, and the sudden killing of officers and soldiers to Liangshanbo, this series of blows made him collapse almost immediately.

Song Jiang on the side was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, the angels of the imperial court are here, as long as everyone listens to my Song Sanlang and puts down their weapons, I guarantee that everyone is fine!" Speaking of this, he grabbed Kong Yanzhou behind him, pulled it over, and shouted: "If you don't believe it, you can ask this Captain Kong if Song is talking nonsense!" ”

"Exactly, exactly!" Kong Yanzhou's reaction was not slow, he immediately came back to his senses, and said loudly: "As long as you persuade the people in the cottage to disarm and surrender, not only are they not guilty, but they are meritorious, and Prime Minister Han will definitely tell the court and reward them for their meritorious deeds!" ”

The dozen or so leaders beside Song Jiang also reacted at this time, and hurriedly shouted in unison: "The imperial army has gone up the mountain, and it will be lowered to avoid death, anyway, it is meritorious!" ”

In the shouts of everyone, the shouting and killing outside became more and more clear and poignant, and the minions in the Juyi Hall looked at each other, and finally someone threw the weapon in his hand on the ground, knelt down and shouted: "The villain is willing to surrender!" ”

The shout was like a signal, and more and more minions dropped their weapons and fell to their knees and shouted surrender. Soon, except for a few people around Ruan Xiaowu, there was a kneeling on the ground. Ruan Xiaowu looked at the corpse of his brother on the ground, and then looked at the Juyi Hall that was kneeling on the ground, laughed miserably, raised the knife and strangled his neck, and fell to the ground.

An hour later, in front of the Juyi Hall, it was full of minions sitting on the ground, and more than 20 wolf-like armored men stood aside, looking coldly at these Liangshan thieves who had made the government tremble not long ago. And the minions also looked at these enemies who had just dressed up and had a temperament quite different from the officers and soldiers they had seen in the past, and it was these people who had just come up from the kung fu of the cottage feast and broke through the cottage.

On the Juyi Hall, Zhou Ping sat calmly on the first seat, and Xue Liangwu and Li Bao stood on both sides. On the ground in front of him, there were more than thirty kneeling people, all of whom were big and small leaders on Liangshan.

"The sinner Song Jiang sued Zhou for imprisonment!" Song Jiang took three steps forward, kowtowed again, and then said carefully: "There are thirty-six big and small leaders on Liangshan, except for the three Ruan brothers who have been ambushed, they are all here, please also be imprisoned and investigated!" ”

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